Proposes a deep learning model to predict user attrition.
problem Attrition prediction in user activity logs.
method End-to-end learning scheme integrating logs and profiles.
result Offers superior performance compared to existing methods.
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Study analyzes WiFi check-ins to predict student activities.
problem Limited understanding of daily routines in POI prediction.
method Heterogeneous graph-based method to encode correlations.
result Improved POI prediction on education check-in data.
We investigate an efficient context-dependent clustering technique for recommender systems based on exploration-exploitation strategies through multi-armed bandits over multiple users. Our algorithm dynamically groups users based on their observed behavioral similarity during a sequence of logged activities. In doing s…
ADSAGE detects anomalies in graph edge sequences for insider threat detection.
problem Detecting insider threats in fine-grained audit logs using graph and text features.
method Anomaly detection at edge level, supporting numeric, categorical, and text attributes.
result ADSAGE detects anomalies in authentications and email communications effectively.
This paper detects anomalies in cellular network traffic using hybrid methods.
problem Detecting anomalies in network traffic for security and analysis.
method Hybrid method combining GARCH, K-means, and Neural Network.
result Anomaly detection in cellular network traffic successfully achieved.
Study user engagement in mobile health apps for health workers in resource-poor settings.
problem Detect churn and tailor content for health workers in mobile health apps.
method Probabilistic and survival analysis of behavioral logs.
result Personalized measures of meaningful engagement can enhance health outcomes.
Boosting trees predict Twitch subscriptions from user activity.
problem Predicting Twitch user subscriptions from activity data.
method Used boosting trees and target-encodings for high cardinality categoricals.
result User activity can be better predicted than content alone.
Collaborative filtering is a useful technique for exploiting the preference patterns of a group of users to predict the utility of items for the active user. In general, the performance of collaborative filtering depends on the number of rated examples given by the active user. The more the number of rated examples giv…
Study active learning for multi-level user preferences in recommendation systems.
problem Efficiently learning user preferences through active querying in recommendation systems.
method Proposes a theoretically optimal active learning strategy based on Fisher information matrix for collective matrix factorization.
result Demonstrates strong improvements over active learning methods in personalized, cold-start, and noisy data settings.
Deep Learning for Unsupervised Insider Threat Detection in Structured Cybersecurity Data Streamscs.NE
Analysis of an organization's computer network activity is a key component of early detection and mitigation of insider threat, a growing concern for many organizations. Raw system logs are a prototypical example of streaming data that can quickly scale beyond the cognitive power of a human analyst. As a prospective fi…
A new algorithm for social network recommendations using side-observations.
problem Designing recommendation algorithms for users influenced by their social network.
method Contextual bandits with side-observations modeled by a social network graph.
result The proposed algorithm achieves asymptotically optimal regret, matching the lower-bound as .
Bayesian nonparametric model predicts user activity and intervention success.
problem Predicting user activity and intervention success in online experiments.
method Bayesian nonparametric approach to model user heterogeneity and derive user activity predictions.
result The proposed method outperforms existing approaches in predicting user activity and intervention success.
Deep learning predicts user identity, activity, and location from Wi-Fi signals.
problem Privacy concerns and need for non-invasive user authentication, activity classification, and tracking.
method End-to-end deep learning framework using passive Wi-Fi signals.
result System autonomously predicts user identity, activity, and location without user intervention.
A new method for recommending groups and activities based on geo-social data.
problem Recommendation of groups and activities based on geo-social data with social constraints.
method Proposes an attentive geo-social group recommendation method with an attention mechanism and a spatial query algorithm.
result Significantly outperforms baseline methods in real-world datasets.
User engagement in online social networking depends critically on the level of social activity in the corresponding platform--the number of online actions, such as posts, shares or replies, taken by their users. Can we design data-driven algorithms to increase social activity? At a user level, such algorithms may incre…
TIM framework uses LLMs and domain experts to infer DeFi user transaction intents.
problem Challenges in understanding user intent in DeFi transactions due to complex interactions and opaque logs.
method TIM framework leverages a DeFi intent taxonomy, multi-agent LLM system, and a Meta-Level Planner.
result TIM significantly outperforms existing methods in inferring user transaction intents.
Proposes privacy-preserving sensor data transformations to prevent user re-identification and sensitive activity inference.
problem Privacy threats from shared sensor data and potential user re-identification.
method Mechanisms to transform sensor data to eliminate patterns for re-identification and sensitive activity inference, while maintaining minor utility loss.
result Reduced user re-identification accuracy to random guess level and prevented inference of sensitive activities.
Paper tackles privacy in active learning for sensitive data.
problem Privacy leak in active learning with sensitive data.
method Privacy-preserving active learning approach with quantifiable guarantees.
result Tradeoff between privacy, utility, and annotation budget demonstrated.
Research Issues in Mining User Behavioral Rules for Context-Aware Intelligent Mobile Applicationscs.LG
This paper discusses issues in mining user behavioral rules for context-aware mobile apps.
problem Mining contextual behavioral rules from smartphone data.
method Addressing quality of data, relevancy of contexts, discretization, rule discovery, semantic understanding, and dynamic rule updating.
result Potential solutions for mining user behavioral rules for context-aware mobile apps.
COHORTNEY groups web users based on activity patterns.
problem Lack of academic discussion on cohort analysis for user behavior.
method Unsupervised non-parametric machine learning approach.
result COHORTNEY outperforms traditional methods in cohort analysis.
We consider active learning with logged data, where labeled examples are drawn conditioned on a predetermined logging policy, and the goal is to learn a classifier on the entire population, not just conditioned on the logging policy. Prior work addresses this problem either when only logged data is available, or purely…
Improved conversion prediction for B2B products using collective online activity trails.
problem Limited information from single user activity trails for B2B ad targeting.
method Introduced relevant users concept and used distributed activity representations to build seed lists.
result Improved conversion prediction AUC by 8.8% using collective activity trails.
Characterizing and Forecasting User Engagement with In-app Action Graph: A Case Study of Snapchatcs.LG
The paper uses action graphs to predict user engagement in Snapchat.
problem Understanding what motivates users to engage with mobile social apps.
method Formalized in-app action transition patterns as action graphs, analyzing their characteristics to predict future engagement.
result Action graphs can characterize user behavior patterns and inform future engagement.
Data science predicts user interest for midwifery content.
problem Improving midwives' learning and preventing maternal and newborn deaths.
method Forecasting methods using user-generated logs from online learning apps.
result Determining future user interest in midwifery content types.
Federated Learning improves mobile data privacy by training classifiers without sharing raw data.
problem Privacy concerns in packet classification due to sensitive data sharing.
method Apply Federated Learning to mobile packet classification tasks, training models without raw data sharing.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of the approach in terms of performance, cost, and privacy.
Deep belief network improves smartphone activity recognition.
problem Activity recognition on mobile devices.
method Categorization through deep belief network.
result 98.25% correct diagnosis in training data, 93.01% in test data.
Poisson factorization is a probabilistic model of users and items for recommendation systems, where the so-called implicit consumer data is modeled by a factorized Poisson distribution. There are many variants of Poisson factorization methods who show state-of-the-art performance on real-world recommendation tasks. How…
Efficiently learns reward functions with few user queries.
problem Efficiently learning reward functions with minimal data and user interaction.
method Batch active preference-based learning algorithm.
result The algorithm requires only a few queries and short computation times.
Modeling social network activity through user and topic interaction.
problem Understanding complex dynamics of opinion formation in social networks.
method Mixture of Interacting Cascades (MIC) model of marked multidimensional Hawkes processes.
result MIC achieves superior performance in modeling information cascade spread.
We optimize discounts to maximize influence spread in social networks.
problem Maximizing influence spread in social networks with fractional discounts.
method Developed an efficient (1-1/e)-approximation algorithm for NP-hard problem.
result Achieved an approximation of 1-1/e for influence maximization.
New method detects and measures malicious users in recommendation algorithms.
problem Identifying and quantifying malicious user activity in recommendation systems.
method Probabilistic programming for a disentangled model of malicious and regular user behavior.
result Simulation-based measure for quantifying malicious user effects.
DynGraph2Seq predicts health stages from user activity graphs in online forums.
problem Predicting health stages from changing user activities in online forums.
method Formulated user activities as dynamic graphs, used DynGraph2Seq model with hierarchical attention.
result Demonstrated effectiveness and interpretability of DynGraph2Seq.
USTAR combines multiple social media modalities to model user-guided activities.
problem Lack of comprehensive spatiotemporal activity models using all social media modalities.
method Online learning method embedding locations, time, text, and users into a single space, incorporating NGTSM and GTSM records, and using collaborative filtering.
result USTAR significantly improves region and keyword retrieval compared to state-of-the-art methods.
In recommender systems, cold-start issues are situations where no previous events, e.g. ratings, are known for certain users or items. In this paper, we focus on the item cold-start problem. Both content information (e.g. item attributes) and initial user ratings are valuable for seizing users' preferences on a new ite…
Recommender systems take inputs from user history, use an internal ranking algorithm to generate results and possibly optimize this ranking based on feedback. However, often the recommender system is unaware of the actual intent of the user and simply provides recommendations dynamically without properly understanding …
Real-time personalization for HAR models learns from new users without prior data.
problem Poor performance of HAR models on new users without labeled data.
method Incremental online domain adaptation using batch normalization.
result Personalized HAR models adapt to new users in real-time.
The paper analyzes user activities in OSNs using a vector space model.
problem Understanding user interactions and activity patterns in OSNs.
method TF-IDF scheme of Vector Space Model to analyze object-viewer relationships.
result Identified activity relationships among users and objects in OSNs.
Transfer learning improves activity recognition accuracy on smartwatches.
problem Inconsistent activity recognition accuracy across different users.
method On-device calibration of GBM by tuning parameters without retraining.
result Significant improvement in user-based accuracy for activity recognition.
Machine learning detects survey validity from user behavior.
problem Detecting valid responses in web surveys.
method Uses mouse activity and machine learning models (LSTM, HMM).
result Predicts survey validity without analyzing specific answers.
Study shows semi-supervised learning improves human activity recognition with minimal user input.
problem Improving human activity recognition models using incremental learning.
method Three approaches: non-supervised, semi-supervised, and supervised learning were compared.
result Semi-supervised learning achieves similar accuracy to supervised learning with minimal user input.
Counterfactual learning is a natural scenario to improve web-based machine translation services by offline learning from feedback logged during user interactions. In order to avoid the risk of showing inferior translations to users, in such scenarios mostly exploration-free deterministic logging policies are in place. …
A novel multi-modal active learning approach using RL for engagement estimation.
problem Challenges in labeling multi-modal human data for accurate user state estimation.
method Deep reinforcement learning for optimal data selection and multi-modal data fusion.
result The proposed approach outperforms existing methods in engagement estimation.
Many online platforms have deployed anti-fraud systems to detect and prevent fraudulent activities. However, there is usually a gap between the time that a user commits a fraudulent action and the time that the user is suspended by the platform. How to detect fraudsters in time is a challenging problem. Most of the exi…
Study on hyperparameter optimization for smartphone-based HAR.
problem Maintaining stable classification accuracy in HAR systems with mobile devices.
method Semi-supervised classifier and study on hyperparameter configuration.
result Adjusting hyperparameters can maintain classification accuracy.
Study reveals centralization in Bitcoin transactions involving retail users.
problem Centralization and bias in Bitcoin transaction data.
method Heuristic classification of Bitcoin users, weekly activity pattern analysis.
result Most real transactions involve Frequent Receivers, centralizing the ecosystem.
We propose Information-Theoretic Active Learning (ITAL), a novel batch-mode active learning method for binary classification, and apply it for acquiring meaningful user feedback in the context of content-based image retrieval. Instead of combining different heuristics such as uncertainty, diversity, or density, our met…
Framework for interactive learning to minimize user experience regressions.
problem Sub-optimal user experiences due to frequent exploration of options.
method Explore-Exploit framework for online learning operators.
result Efficiencies achieved in integrating online learning with run-time services.
Calendar graph neural networks model user behavior with location and time data.
problem Modeling user behavior with location and time information for demographic prediction.
method Graph neural networks with a tripartite network of items, sessions, and locations, and a hierarchical calendar network.
result User embeddings preserve spatial and temporal patterns of various periodicity.